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art bell
Hi guys and the great American Southwest Windows.
Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world.
I'm uncovered all they are.
This radio program post goes am I Marvel.
This is the weekend edition.
unidentified
And we're gonna take, uh, we're gonna take all this hour of the mindset.
We're gonna talk about man who's investigating one of my favorite subjects.
art bell
Man consciousness in a very special way through the web release.
His name is George George.
And it should be a very, very interesting evening or morning, depending on your perspective.
unidentified
Let's take a quick look at world events.
art bell
Product the apparently flawless landing, and it was, of the Spirit Rover on Mars.
That's the scientist bored over photographs and other information suddenly awaiting a stream of even more temporalizing data and work on the day-to-day process of getting the robot ready to roll.
Spirit made a nerve-wracking but safe landing on Mars late Saturday on what scientists believe is the rocky bed of an ancient lake that once may have harbored life.
unidentified
Martian life.
art bell
Yes, indeed.
Well, we are down safely, and the first photographs have rolled in black and white.
We're going to get color photographs about 1.30 or three and a half hours or so from right now.
Be the first color photographs.
Got a call from Richard earlier.
In a feisty first debate of the election year, Howard Dean drew fire from fellow Democrats on Sunday over trade, terror, taxes, and then calmly dismissed his rivals as, why co-opted by the agenda of George Bush?
He said, I oppose the Iraq war when everyone else up here was for it, said the former Vermont governor, invoking the issue that helped fuel his 2003 transformation from a mere asterisk in the polls to front-runner.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday.
Doesn't think it looked so good in a way, declaring the occupation at a critical stage with just six months to go before giving order back, you know, self-rule back to the Iraqis.
His top envoy warned that insurgents are growing more sophisticated and planning bigger attacks.
In China, I'm sorry to say, some 10,000 cats in wildlife markets were killed in its southern province of Guangdong after genetic testing suggested that a link to a suspected SARS case might be the problem.
And once again, extra security checks delayed a British Airways flight to Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday as the U.S. entered a third consecutive week on a high state of alert for terrorists.
Now, not being an expert in these things, I don't know, what does that make it?
Something like a dozen flights that have been detained so far?
The only part of this that I don't understand, and of course I understand, you know, detaining flights, I would be thankful if they would do that for me if they thought there was somebody on board who might be going to, you know, drive it into a building or blow it up or whatever.
But what I don't understand is why, out of the delay of 10 or 12 aircraft in totality, counting the ones from Mexico and everything, why haven't they arrested anybody yet?
If they think they've got a name, and you would think they would not delay an airliner unless they thought they knew who was about to do what, then they'd maybe let them get on or start the boarding process and nab them.
But not yet.
Pop star Britney Spears' first marriage is going to be one of the most brief, even for Hollywood.
A 22-year-old married Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend from Louisiana, about 5.30 in the morning in Las Vegas, of course.
And so I guess it'll be over as soon as it begins.
Oh, by the way, I've got a pretty cool photograph.
If you've ever wondered how I get the signal from here to there, we do it by a satellite uplink.
And pictured in my webcam right now is a picture in my backyard of the satellite uplink that carries the signal to the geostationary satellite 22,300 miles above Earth.
And there it is.
That is the very dish that carries my voice right now.
A meteorite has hit northern Iran as if they haven't had enough trouble.
A meteorite came crashing in on Friday, did damage some property, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Now, the people in Iran are probably wondering what's going on.
I mean, if you've had an earthquake, a big one, and then you've had a meteorite crash, you're probably going to begin to think you're getting a message of some sort.
Anyway, open lines coming right up.
So you've got the phone numbers.
Just pick up a telephone and we'll rock and roll.
unidentified
Rock and roll.
art bell
Well, here's some good news.
I think the headline is, Earth Changes Its Spin baffles scientists.
I love those headlines.
In a phenomena that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.
Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia now.
To make the world's official time agree with the Earth, usually required scientists, well, back in 1972, they began to add an extra leap second on the last day of every year, a leap second.
For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure, but in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind.
At the National Institute for Scientists and Technology in Boulder, a spokesman, that's Boulder, where they've got WWV, Fred McGinn, said that most scientists agree the Earth's orbit about the Sun has been gradually slowing for millennia, but he said they don't have any good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule.
So I don't know if that's an important story at all, or maybe it is.
But what worries me about it is that scientists don't understand why it was lagging behind, nor do they understand why it's caught up again.
So maybe we have a problem.
Houston.
Famous abductee Betty Hill is now celebrating a status of being the oldest living abductee.
She was taken aboard a UFO with her husband Barney in New Hampshire in 1961 and says, quote, they grabbed us to see if we were similar to them.
I can understand why they were interested in us physically.
I don't hold that against them to this day.
And quote, she's 84 years of old and ailing now.
And I talk to Betty every now and then.
She's a daytime person, would love to have come on the show, but, you know, just can't stay up this late on the East Coast.
And by the way, she said that with the exception of the eyes, which were larger, the aliens she saw were very much like humans, the big difference being the eyes.
They were much, much larger.
All right, open lines, open lines promised, open lines delivered.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Hi, is this Arbelle?
art bell
It is indeed.
And your name?
unidentified
This is Joseph.
I'm 12 years old.
And my friend, he had told me that I actually got possessed one night.
And, well, it seemed that I got up and said, where's my lifesaver?
And he's like, do you mean your inhaler?
And then all of a sudden I just scream.
And then I fall down.
And this happened ten times in a row.
art bell
And what do you think you were possessed by, Joseph?
unidentified
I think I was possessed by either the devil or one of his minions.
art bell
Do you?
Why do you think the devil or one of his minions would pick on you?
unidentified
I think it's because my mom also was picked on by one of the devils, and she ended up doing sit-ups in bed, actually, with one of her exes.
And also, since she also named her dog Lucifer and stuff, she named your dog Lucifer?
No, she named her old dog Lucifer, and since that I'm one of her children, I think that the devil wanted to pick on me, too.
art bell
Do you think you might be a bad seed, Joseph?
unidentified
I think so.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Do you find yourself looking in the mirror occasionally and seeing the devil in yourself?
unidentified
Sometimes I do.
art bell
You do?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Do you find yourself having, I don't know, evil thoughts?
unidentified
Yeah, actually, I do a lot of times.
art bell
I've seen movies about people like you.
They're just about your age, too.
unidentified
Oh.
art bell
Well, probably better you don't watch those kind of movies.
unidentified
I probably, I might have seen one of them.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
I think so.
art bell
You don't think that's what did it to you, do you?
unidentified
No, I doubt that.
I think it's my brother, I think he turned me all bad because my brother, he's younger than me, but one time he just made me so mad and so angry that I literally shouted out and screamed so loud to where the whole neighbor could hear me.
art bell
Well, I have no idea.
Well, I guess you should see an exorcist, Joseph.
If you really think you may be possessed, that's not a good thing.
You'd want to cast that out.
That would be pretty scary.
These days I have no name to give you, to send you to get that devil taken out.
So I'll tell you what, you get in touch with me by email, and I'll see who I can put you in touch with.
unidentified
All right, cool.
art bell
All right, Joseph, anybody else wanting to get in touch with me may do so.
I'm artbell at mindsbrain.com or artbell at aol.com.
Man, can you imagine being 12 years old and thinking you're possessed or in fact being possessed?
Either way, rough stuff.
Wildcard line, you are on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Yeah, hi, Art.
Hi.
Hi, this is Russ.
I'm from Long Island, New York.
art bell
Hey, Russ.
unidentified
I'm a Streamlink member, and I absolutely love Streamlink.
It's fabulous.
art bell
It's pretty handy, isn't it?
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
You can listen to it during the day, anytime, except when you want to call in.
You've got to stay up.
art bell
Yeah, you know, we have really entered a new age.
Streamlink, satellite radio from space and elsewhere.
Boy, the world, the internet.
And that'll be the subject tonight, by the way.
Mass consciousness and predicting events by the internet.
It's really a fascinating time we live in.
unidentified
I love it.
Absolutely love it.
And I'm excited to tell you this, Art.
I've had this information in me from 1977.
July 26th of 1977, we had that, well, 25th, we had that big blackout in New York.
Oh, yes.
The 26th, which was the following day, we still had no electric.
And it was a very clear, crystal clear blue sky.
I guess you could just verify that by checking the weather from, you know, back then.
Sure.
I had a sighting along with my sister and brother of six UFOs.
Now, interesting, after the sighting, I had a complete understanding of how time began, how gravity works, how to repel gravity.
art bell
This is all very large.
unidentified
And we talk about today free energy.
art bell
Okay, let's slow up a little bit.
Can you encapsulate for me and tell me, for example, how time began?
unidentified
Absolutely.
art bell
All right, do it.
unidentified
This is before the Big Bang.
We all believe in our own God.
I call him the Creator.
When the Creator started, he had a thought to create everything from nothing.
Now you have to realize, in the existence of the Creator, the Creator is surrounded by energy.
So when he created, he started with a sphere, an empty sphere, which is our universe, but it was completely empty.
The only thing that penetrated that sphere, that bubble, was the energy that surrounded the Creator.
This energy was a frequency.
The frequency, because of the mass of the bubble, compressed.
And it compressed and compressed into matter.
The matter started to pull towards each other and compress.
As the matter started getting more and more dense, it started to create an energy within.
And because there was nowhere for the energy to go, it exploded into the Big Bang.
And if you think about it, that free energy that you're talking about, if you can compress that matter and get it to the point of explosion, just before the point of explosion, that's where your energy is.
Anyway, the big explosion happens.
The molting matter blows up and starts in this molting state of, you know, molting matter is blown out into the bubble.
And in its molting state, it's like a blob of jello.
Finally, it starts to break up.
No, it doesn't break up.
It just starts to stop bouncing jello, and it just stays still and hardens up.
You have to excuse me.
I'm very nervous.
art bell
That's all right.
What I'm interested in now at this point is how all of this actually was imparted to you.
unidentified
Okay.
I have no clue.
It just came to me.
But let me explain this other thing about gravity.
art bell
Yes, all right.
unidentified
This all, and I did speak to some people about this, but listening to your show for the past year, I started to realize that everything that I knew started to be validated.
You know, this black energy you're talking about, I knew about this.
art bell
Dark energy, yes.
unidentified
Okay, dark energy.
But I did know about the energy that exists around us, but I had no one to talk to about it.
I wish I could speak to Professor Kaku.
But anyhow, let me explain a couple of things.
Our gravity.
I hear on your show that they're talking about the universe expanding.
And this is how it happens.
The matter that's in space...
art bell
We have very little time here.
unidentified
Okay.
If you're under water, and if you go to the depths of water, what happens to a can?
It gets crushed.
Okay, now let's say space.
Space is like that water.
Earth is under the water, say, because of the massness of space.
art bell
All right, you're not going to get anywhere fast enough for us.
unidentified
No, wait, I will.
I will.
The matter presses up against the Earth.
As all of matter in space is pressing against all the planets, that is the gravity.
It's the matter pressing on Earth.
art bell
Yeah, dark matter pressing.
That's the same thing, actually, that Dr. Cuckoo may have said in a slightly different way.
But yeah, that's right.
And that may, in fact, be gravity.
Gravity may be a push, not a pull.
It's always been traditionally thought, of course, that we were, in essence, pulled to the ground by the mass of Earth, and in a way, that's right.
But it's also, it may not be right.
It may be a push.
And it may be the dark matter that's pushing everything that's causing the expansion, which is his revelation, or that which was imparted to him in some sort of abduction.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Yeah, I would like to discuss psychic ability.
art bell
Do you have some?
unidentified
I was, yeah, I have a little bit.
art bell
To do what?
unidentified
Like, I can foretell a little bit, like, what's going to happen.
Yes.
Just a tiny bit.
Like, I was sleeping one night, and I had this dream, like, that I found this body or whatever floating next to a river.
Yes.
Floating in a river, actually, I'm sorry.
And it was, like, all bloated and gross and stuff, and it was, like, one of those dreams that just wakes you up.
art bell
Yes, please call them floaters, yes.
unidentified
Yes.
And, like, the next day, I was listening to the radio, and they said that they had just pulled a body from a river, like, in the same location that I was dreaming.
art bell
How do you know it was not a coincidence, simple coincidence, that you had?
unidentified
Because I had dreamed it the night Before.
art bell
All right, do you have any dreams you can impart to us of things that have not yet occurred that we might look for?
unidentified
Not yet, no.
art bell
Well, any moment you do, you be sure and call us.
Otherwise, hindsight is 20-20, as they say, right?
But anything you can call we're interested in from the high desert in the middle of the night, this is Coast to Coast AM.
unidentified
Would you pay 15 cents to hear this show in its entirety?
That's the daily charge for Streamlink.
Sign up at www.coastacoastam.com.
I used to feel your heart for long for the time to turn the story.
You change yourself, you take myself on the road Another night, another day goes wild I never saw myself do one of them You have to forget to play my role You take
yourself, you make myself on the road I, I live among the creatures of the night I haven't got the will to try and fight Against the moon tomorrow So I guess I'll just believe it Tomorrow will never come I said it's night I'm living in the forest of my dreams I know the night
is not as it seems I must believe in something So I'll make myself believe it This night will never go Oh, oh, oh To talk with Art Bell, call the wildcard line at area code 775-727-1295.
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art bell
That certainly would be me, a creature of the night.
Probably a lot of you too.
How you doing?
I'm Art Bell, and we're going to go roaring through this night, and it's going to be absolutely fascinating.
Little Damien last half hour was pretty interesting, wasn't it?
We'll be right back.
unidentified
We'll be right back.
art bell
It is very nearly a full moon out there.
I don't know if you've looked.
First time caller line, you're on here.
Hello.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
This is Mike from Louisiana.
art bell
Hello, Mike.
unidentified
Hey, I had a quick little story about something that happened to me about 10 to 12 years ago with some demons, and I wanted to get your thoughts on the story after I told it to you.
art bell
Demons.
All right, demons.
What happened?
unidentified
This was like some time ago.
Me and my sister was present.
She was well above age, so I know this wasn't something I was just imagining.
I'm going to tell it to you just how it happened and let you take it from now.
Well, basically, we were in the room discussing things in one of the back bedrooms, and we had three dogs in the house.
All three dogs headed towards the room, went under the bed and in the other room, and then this red light appeared underneath the door.
And as I was pushing the door, trying to close it, something was pushing towards me, back.
That's really about all I can remember about it because it was such a long time ago, other than the fact that it was scary.
When I rebuked it with the Bible, it went away.
art bell
Oh, I see.
So it never got you.
unidentified
Oh, it never got as far as gotten me.
I mean, I've had this trained entity in my dreams at other times, but this was actually in reality because I have somebody that confirmed that it actually happened.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
if you're having dreams and maybe maybe it did get you i mean all the same person that had the same experience with me has told me about experiences that she's had with it other than You should be looking in the mirror and seeing if you see a little devilishness in the corners of your eye.
unidentified
Well, I mean, someone moved.
Some scop moved away.
art bell
Well, that wouldn't matter.
Once it's in you, brother, it's there.
So you check that mirror and you let me know.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
well good luck uh...
you know what i'm lying around here hello Hello, Art.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
This is Billy, one of the many truck drivers who listen to you every night.
Yes, sir.
Currently in Georgia, I wanted to relay some information I received from friends and family who were active duty military.
And I'm retired military myself, but it seems to be that forces that are East Coast forces normally, you know, they're slated for the Middle East and they're stretched thin over there have gotten orders to get into the Pacific just as quick as possible.
art bell
Massive numbers of troops moving from Europe and elsewhere in this country to Asia?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
The USS Nebraska, another nuclear sub, a guided missile cruiser, all East Coast units and an air wing that from what I've heard.
art bell
Well, okay, let us.
Yeah, let us suppose this is all true.
What sudden interest do you think there would be in the Pacific region for us?
unidentified
The rumor that I've got is Taiwan.
Taiwan.
I don't know if things are heating up with China because of the space race and Taiwan making noises or North Korea.
But I'd be very interested to hear from other listeners who might be hearing that.
art bell
All right, let's see what we can find out.
Anybody else know of mass troop movements and assets like aircraft carriers and submarines, nuclear submarines into the Pacific theater?
That would certainly be interesting.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
Hello?
Hello, Art?
Yes.
Oh, how are you tonight?
art bell
Just fine.
unidentified
I'm calling you from Lusick, Pennsylvania.
My name's Patrick.
Okay.
About a month or two ago, you had a guest on.
His name is Matthew Alper.
art bell
Ah, yes.
The God Part of the Brain.
unidentified
Yes.
I've currently been studying his book, and I do find it very compelling.
art bell
It is compelling.
That's why I had him on the air.
unidentified
However, I do disagree wholeheartedly with the crux of his message.
art bell
The crux of the message would be that our brains, our mortal brains, to protect against the fact that we are in fact mortal and will die, are forced to construct an area of the brain that, in essence, instructs us to worship and believe in the hereafter.
unidentified
Yes, that is his message, but he also maintains that there is no spiritual realm.
art bell
Well, that's right, yes.
unidentified
And that there's nothing beyond the corporeal world.
art bell
Yes, he's very adamant on that subject.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, I noticed in his book, for instance, just to give you a quick example, Art, on the subject of glossolalia, he only devotes two small pages to it, and he dismisses it very easily.
And this is a phenomenon that I witnessed firsthand.
And I know that there is no earthly explanation for this.
Are you familiar with that phenomenon?
art bell
Well, I am.
But you see, Matthew is as, in my opinion, narrow-minded, as broad-minded as he is with respect to his belief, with anything that has to do with paranormal.
He's very narrow-minded, as narrow-minded as you might find many skeptics to be, and that is, if anything, his shortcoming.
He's got a fascinating, riveting, and I believe extremely compelling vision.
However, his refusal to examine in detail demonstrations of and proof of anything at all paranormal is a demonstration of a closed mind in that particular area.
So while he's fascinating, he's not the whole story.
West of the Rockies, you're on there.
unidentified
Hello.
All right.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Hi.
Hello.
I just couldn't help chuckle and listen and comment in my own head when you were saying things to people.
I have a problem, and I need your help, and I need your listeners' help.
art bell
Listening.
unidentified
Yeah.
Last night, and this is just recent, for some reason, I woke myself up by punching with all my strength into the air.
I'm glad my husband wasn't there because he was right beside me.
But I punched into the air, and I literally tore my pectoral muscle.
Oh, my.
And I don't understand what was going on.
I don't remember the dream because if I did, it would probably make a lot of sense, a lot more sense.
art bell
You were trying to get something?
unidentified
I think I was pushing away something.
Okay.
And what I was hoping is that you might be able to give me some ideas or that your listeners might be able to help me because I'm still suffering from this.
My muscle's totally bald.
art bell
Well, you need a dream interpreter, which...
unidentified
I don't even remember the dream.
art bell
That's a good point.
unidentified
If I remember the dream, that might actually help.
art bell
Maybe you dreamed you were in the NFL.
Had a rotator cup thing or something.
unidentified
Not me.
I'm not into football.
This was something like very extreme.
Now, I'm one of these strange people that when I sleep, I get physically active in my sleep.
I used to sleepwalk.
art bell
Are you married?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
You are?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
How does your husband feel about this dreamtime physicality?
unidentified
Yeah, well, he actually has a lot of problems with it.
He puts himself at a distance when I get in bed because he's always afraid I'm going to hit him in the eye with my elbow as I slam it down.
And I also have this tendency of bicycling off all the blankets because I move my legs in my sleep.
So when I wake up in the morning, I'm absolutely exhausted because I do all these calisthenics in my sleep.
art bell
As is probably your husband, you know, from dodging you or something.
unidentified
Yeah, he's always dodging me.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
unidentified
And the cat is always, you know, finding different places to sleep because I don't.
art bell
Well, I mean, they finally get fed up.
It's like, hey, there's other places I can lay down.
unidentified
But she always sleeps on my feet.
art bell
I see.
Well, one of these times you're allowed to propel her to the ceiling.
All right.
Well, listen, I really don't know what to tell you, and I don't know how to be of help to you, except, I don't know, maybe you should wear gloves at night or something.
unidentified
Well, boxing gloves?
art bell
Yeah.
unidentified
This is the first time I've ever thrown my own muscle out, though.
Yeah, that's pretty wild.
And I actually, you know, I used to sleepwalk.
I had night terrors as a child.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
And I'm thinking that maybe something was psychically getting at me.
art bell
Yeah, and maybe you were just protecting yourself.
So maybe the other guy looks real bad.
unidentified
Well, I hope he's got a black eye.
That's exactly After all I did with throwing my darn shoulder out of whack.
That's really wild.
It was almost as bad as actually, I think I almost dislocated my shoulder.
art bell
Well, as I was saying, I saw somebody earlier yesterday dislocate their shoulder, but they were in the NFL.
Hey, what about that greenberry, huh?
At least something to be happy about.
International line, you're on the air.
Where are you calling from, please?
unidentified
Hi, Art.
This is Max McCann calling.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
I've got a couple comments, question, and a complaint.
art bell
All right, Max.
unidentified
Okay.
You know, I was just going to say that the show's been great.
You know, I was listening to the callers, the one that was just calling, that it'd actually be a great show to have somebody that does dream interpretation on.
art bell
Well, you know, it would.
I have some reservations about the dream interpretation business, if it is one.
I have some reservations about it.
I don't know if anybody can really interpret your dreams.
I know they say most times they mean opposite of what you think they mean and stuff like that, but I still don't know if that means I understand really what your dream was about.
But yeah, I've done it.
We'll do it again.
unidentified
Like another thing I was going to say, you know, I was the last person probably to ever access your website last year.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
How could you know that?
unidentified
Actually, no, I've got a counter reading.
I burnt it to disk as well.
art bell
I see.
unidentified
Do you want the number?
art bell
No, that's all right.
unidentified
Okay.
Actually, my other question is, when are you going to have an Area 51 line for Area 51 callers?
Yeah.
art bell
Anytime I feel like it.
unidentified
Okay.
My other complaint is, because I'm in Canada.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
It is so hard to go and listen to coast to coast.
Like, it's very hard to go and find a Canadian station to listen to the show.
Yes.
art bell
Even though we do have a string of them, pretty much, from the east to the west coast of Canada, you're a very spread-out country.
You're like we are.
unidentified
Yeah, the other thing is like when you guys lost Como, that really cut out like three-quarters of BCs, which are where I am as well.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
So it's like trying to go and tune into either 1190 out of Portland or 780 at Arena, trying to run on a triple skip.
It really doesn't work too good.
art bell
Yep, there are nights and there are nights.
unidentified
You have yourself a great evening, Ark.
art bell
You too, and take care.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hello there.
unidentified
Yes, it's so wonderful to talk to you again.
I just have one request I'd like to make.
Someone called in and they mentioned possible ship movements to the Pacific.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
And you asked if anyone knew about that.
art bell
Well, he did, yes.
unidentified
Yeah, well, if you could not have people do that, because there'll be some stupid little E1 who doesn't know any better, who doesn't understand the concept of OPSEC, and who might blow things.
I'm only saying this because I'm in the military.
art bell
Well, are you then confirming what the callers said?
unidentified
No.
art bell
You're not?
unidentified
I am not confirming or denying.
In fact, I am very far from the Pacific right now.
art bell
All I'm saying is if you could just have your if it would be true, you don't want it really out, right?
unidentified
Exactly.
Because of operational security.
art bell
Yeah, but there's always a real good out.
I mean, you can say, well, it was the Art Bell show.
But then, see, you want to be careful about sounding even more credible and then adding to the credibility of the statement now.
See what I mean?
unidentified
Yeah, like I said, I cannot confirm it or what's going over there.
art bell
But see, that makes you sound like a military guy down in Roswell.
I can neither confirm nor can I deny.
You see how that sounds?
unidentified
Yeah, I can tell you this much.
I know nothing about what's going on in the Pacific, but all I know is please, anyone listening to me, don't call in and transmit ship movement.
Loose lips, shink zips.
Sink ships.
True then, it's true now.
Okay?
art bell
I suppose so.
But again, I say to you, sir, probably you shouldn't have called because I can assure you your phone call has only made people more suspicious than they were after the first phone call, which they might have just dismissed.
So see what you've done.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
All right.
Thank you, Celia.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
How you doing?
art bell
Pretty well, thank you.
unidentified
Art, the last time I spoke to you, I was talking with Father Malachi.
art bell
A long time ago.
unidentified
Yeah, this is Joe from the Mean Streets of East Los Angeles, California, AFI.
art bell
Yes, Joe.
unidentified
Anyhow, I want to talk about a certain string of events that happened on your show and the other show.
It happened with Jordan Matreya.
It seems like he had an exorcist who came after...
Yes.
And then the following exorcist would state that he identified something called Lord Maitreya would actually manifest himself in the exorcism.
art bell
Correct.
unidentified
And then you would have this Luciferian priest.
I forgot his name.
His website is USMC, something like that.
Anyhow, the Luciferian priest also identified Lord Majoria as being some kind of enlightened, great savior of the world.
art bell
So it will be thought.
unidentified
So, yeah.
So here you have a Luciferian acknowledging him.
You have an exorcist acknowledging Lord Major, but in the Exorcism, you know, itself.
So what I want to know is why does Lord Maitreya try so hard to pretend to be Christ?
art bell
Well, because that is as it is written.
That when he does come, he will come not as announcing himself as the bad guy you've been expecting, but of course a savior of sorts.
And then the big con.
International line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes.
Hi.
This is something completely different.
This is more along the lines of shadow people and people watching you.
And I had a question about mirrors also.
art bell
Okay, very quickly, sure.
unidentified
Okay.
I always have this feeling, like when I'm taking a shower, like there's this, my closets in my house.
And like whenever anything's dark, I have to leave a TV on or a light in my house at all times.
art bell
Everybody knows monsters are in closets.
unidentified
I know, and I cannot sleep in my house, though.
I have to leave a light on.
I can't sleep in the dark in my house.
There's one bedroom.
I just cannot go in during the night time.
art bell
Well, once again, conventional thought knows that monsters don't like lights.
unidentified
I know, and my dog, my dog will stay up all night just barking at the same bedroom door.
And my bathroom, too, whenever I'm taking a shower, I keep having to move the shower curtain and look out.
And I also have a large mirror in my home.
And there's just, I just get this bad feeling about it.
art bell
Well, I'll tell you, I'm getting calls from the haunted and the possessed tonight.
unidentified
Well, I wondered if you ever had anyone on that discuss anything about mirrors or about.
art bell
Oh, yes.
Have you ever heard of scrying?
And, you know, mirrors are paranormal doors to the other side of something.
unidentified
See, I cannot, my house cannot be dark ever.
art bell
Do you realize what could walk through that mirror?
unidentified
No, I don't want to think about it.
But I always, I'll be happy.
art bell
Well, I'll tell you this, it's big.
And it's got a mouth about the size of Milwaukee with teeth like you've seen on the worst shark shows you've ever seen.
And that's what can come through your mirror.
Even if it's a fairly small mirror.
Oh, that's very bad.
I would definitely keep the lights on.
In fact, I'd go get myself another light.
unidentified
Is there anything I could do?
art bell
I'd put a light by that mirror.
And I got to go.
All right, bye, Arthur.
unidentified
Good luck.
art bell
Well, there it was.
The hour of the possessed.
We're going to take a break, and when we come back, George Ewer will be here.
We're going to talk about collective consciousness as it relates to our web, the ever-growing internet.
This will be fascinating.
Stay right where you are.
unidentified
I feel the river overflowing.
I hear the voice that rain is ruined.
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art bell
Well, we're going to have an interesting time over here.
I've got two guests coming up, actually, George Urer and Cliff.
Let me tell you about them.
George Urer was a news director in Seattle from 1970 to 1983, holds a master's in business administration, focused on longwave economics.
He's a cold holder on four patents related to battery state of charge instrumentation, has a patent pending on measuring user-friendliness of enterprise software.
He's been senior vice president of an international airline.
That's something.
A vocational school president has just wrapped up a two-year sales and marketing assignment for a major software company.
His website, urbansurvival.com, focuses on long-wave economics.
In June of 2001, George started corresponding with one of his website readers who was using the internet to forecast future events.
And that might be Cliff, who is an inventor and thinker.
His personal patents began with machine-assisted reading software, which allows humans to read up to 3,000 words a minute.
That's pretty fast, with computer screens.
This technology is currently being marketed by ebbrainspeed.com.
That's echo bravo brainspeed.com.
Cliff is a self-educated man, having read the Oxford courses for doctorates in economics and mathematics, is currently reading the coursework for chemistry.
He is also a self-educated engineer and comprehensive design engineer.
He is a software designer programmer, has worked as a consultant to Microsoft IBM, and he developed the web-bot software that I think we're about to talk about.
Web bots.
That's an interesting phrase all by itself, isn't it?
So somehow all of this does relate in some way to the work going on at Princeton.
I'm sure you know about that.
If not, We will certainly cover it in some detail.
So, coming up in a moment, human mass consciousness, I believe, as it relates to perhaps the web, which is sort of a universal, almost a universal consciousness of its own.
unidentified
*Screams*
art bell
All right, let's introduce our guests.
First, George Ure.
George?
george ure
Good morning, Art.
Listening to you most times on WIOD here in Boca Raton, Florida.
art bell
Oh, you're in Florida?
george ure
Yeah.
art bell
All right.
And your relationship.
Okay, I read a little bit about what you're doing, but I guess you're an economist of sorts, is that?
george ure
Well, actually, I'm a software sales and marketing guru.
art bell
Okay.
george ure
And I have this website.
A little background.
In 1996, I needed a capstone project for my master's, and I was looking at this area of what's called long-wave economics, which is those 50- to 70-year cycles that happen in the economy.
And, you know, they're called conratia cycles.
And I started corresponding with a number of readers of this website.
And it sort of grew word-of-mouth advertising, I guess, among people who follow the stock market.
And one thing led to another.
And suddenly in, well, not quite suddenly, if four years is suddenly, in 2001, I started corresponding with a fellow who said there was some interesting technology he was using to forecast economic events.
art bell
This would be Cliff, I guess.
That's Cliff, exactly.
All right.
george ure
So we began exchanging correspondence, and in July of 2001, Cliff's webbot predicted a major world-changing event would occur.
art bell
Webbot.
unidentified
Webbots.
george ure
Yeah, Cliff better explain how.
art bell
All right, we better bring Cliff in.
Cliff, hello.
clif high
Hello.
art bell
Where are you?
clif high
I'm in Olympia, Washington.
art bell
That's interesting.
George used to be in Washington, and now you are.
Correct.
Okay.
So, Cliff, what in first of all, Cliff, you're not using your last name.
Is there a reason for that?
clif high
It has less to do with anything other than the personality issue, but it's more of a security thing.
Ever since I've been involved with the web bots, I find that my machine is continually under pressure from cracking attacks.
And the less information I give out, the better just in reducing the amount of time I spend defending against those.
art bell
Ayo, gotcha.
I know.
I know all about that.
clif high
Well, we happened to run into some Chinese source code using our product here, and we've been sort of battling a Chinese project that's similar.
And ever since we encountered them, they've been attempting to crack into my system to see just exactly where we are.
My goodness.
art bell
Well, okay.
Cliff, let's slow up a little bit, and we'll get to all of that.
But explain, if you would, what a web bot is.
clif high
Well, that's really George's name for it.
I always thought of it as spiders and agents.
These are intelligent agents written in a programming language called Prolog, which literally is a hyphenated version of programming and logic.
Okay.
And these little intelligent agents and spiders can be thought of as the same kind of software critter that the major search engines use to go out and index everything.
art bell
Right.
Search engines search the entire web, find websites and descriptions, if they can, about what the general content is, and then list them on the search engines.
But people don't know these search engines, 24 hours a day, they're out there scouring the web, looking for stuff to list.
Is that fair?
clif high
That's correct.
art bell
And so your software is related to that in the sense that it scours the web for something.
clif high
Correct.
You can think of us as kind of like the reverse of those sorts of programs that might be run by alphabet soup agencies who look for email to see who's saying what to whom.
art bell
I think of them more as a worm, Cliff.
clif high
Okay, our program is rather, instead of being a database where it stores the information once it's found the pages it's looking for, it merely takes, if you will, a sample, a small biopsy of that page, disregards the rest of the page, and throws back that information to us.
art bell
All right.
Specifically, when you've got your little worm in there doing its thing, I guess worm is an unfair term to use, but it seems like it's kind of like a worm, sort of.
And for you, it's spiders and for George the bot.
But I want to know what it's really looking for when it goes out there.
clif high
Well, it's actually very complex, and I don't really need to get into the details and throw everybody off into the programming.
But basically what happens is we have a series of set URLs to go to and or we have a series, a lexicon of words that we're interested in seeing if they show up.
And so, for instance, we might be interested in the word offshoring.
See, originally I decided to develop this because I'd come across the sort of a duh moment when I noticed the link between emotionalism and what was happening with the stock market.
And I thought if one could predict how people were likely to feel emotionally about a stock, one could predict whether it was likely to go up or down, independent of such things as fundamentals, earnings, etc.
art bell
Fascinating.
clif high
That's how it started.
art bell
Fascinating.
I see what you're doing.
so you take any given subject that would have to be all sure but offshore would have to do with drilling in oil and what's going on what maybe what's being discovered and what's Really?
Yes.
clif high
But nonetheless, you're correct.
It doesn't have to be.
It could be anything.
art bell
For example, George could be interested, let's say, oh, I don't know, in a particular airline stock.
clif high
Correct.
art bell
As it relates to, I don't know, the possibility of terrorism or something else.
And he would want to know if that stock would do well, and you would send out your little creature, we'll call it.
And it would do a lot of searching on the web and come to conclusions, Cliff?
clif high
No, it's more of a data gatherer at that stage.
Then once the data comes back here in vast quantities, all of which is text, by the way, because we don't care about images, because what we're really after is an emotional quantity here to be able to quantify the emotions with which people might be dealing with a particular subject.
And so once that brings back all that information, then I have all these prologue programs that go through and compare it, that is, compare the words that have been brought back, with a much augmented version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
I went through a number of years ago for another software project and obtained a copy of 110,000 English word lexicon from Oxford, and I've supplemented that by putting emotional values to the words.
Then we make these little matrices and make some decisions and populate it in sort of a CAD program, and then we make conclusions.
george ure
Yeah, let me explain so listeners can visualize it a little bit.
What ends up happening is after Cliff deploys the WebBots, they send back this huge pile of information.
And then what Cliff does is he goes through based on timestamps and all the other things involved in this and builds in three-dimensional model space.
If you picture a loaf of bread, each slice of bread becomes a layer in what we call model space.
And it's actually fairly large.
It's what, 30 feet or so, square cleft?
clif high
60.
unidentified
60.
george ure
Okay.
So this model space gives you a way of looking at collections of dots.
And as the collections of dots change over time, you see entities, an entity is a collection of dots, where as you look through this loaf of bread, you'll see maybe halfway down the loaf, all of the dots coalesce into a single area of the slice of bread.
And over time, you can see shifts of language this way.
unidentified
Shifts of language?
clif high
Let me give you a real concrete example.
Let's say that we're talking about a situation where George's ex-wife stole his car.
If we say it that way, if George sits down and he types out, my ex-wife stole my car, that sentence has certain attributes.
art bell
Oh, you bet.
clif high
Now, if he comes along and says, she conned me out of my car, that sentence, while expressing basically the same concept, again has certain attributes and aspects that are slightly different than the previous one.
And we can go on and we can say, ultimately, get it up to the point where George says, some expletive, jacked my car from me.
Now, each of those has time quantities because the verbs being used, conned, stole, and jacked, have an attempt over time to express a different concept in our language.
In other words, it's not your father's English anymore.
We can no longer speak in the terms that our parents used because it doesn't express for us the immediacy, the emotionalism of the world in which we live in.
To say nothing of the fact that technology has changed and new words must come into being, we further must apply to those new words as well as old words new meaning.
art bell
So you're trying to teach a computer to read the emotional value of the return that it gets.
clif high
We have succeeded in doing so.
art bell
You have succeeded in doing so.
And so.
clif high
I'm not saying we've succeeded in doing it the best way possible or the only way possible, just one of the ways that are possible.
george ure
And it sort of art like the early days of radio.
Remember, little crystal receivers were not very selective and really prone to noise.
Of course.
And that's why when we do one of these runs, the output that we get from this system almost reads like the I Ching, the Chinese book of changes.
But in that I Ching-like output, there are sufficient hits.
The Northeast power outage, that's up on the urban survival site.
art bell
Now, whoohoo.
What are we suggesting is occurring here?
And how with these bots did you detect the Northeast power outage coming?
See, we're taking a big leap here.
clif high
Let me give you one more item of background.
And that is that by putting our little dots in this scattergram in our IntelliCAD program, and then allowing the dots to change over time, we get a sense of motion.
And so these dots, which represent language groups and really represent an emotional content, like they represent how people feel in the aggregate about certain subjects, we see that change over time.
And so by watching for the changes, we can make predictions.
And I'll let George take it back.
art bell
Okay, so at some point, in other words, I can see how this project began as a pure economic aid to attempting to predict, for example, what the stock market or even an individual stock, I would presume.
clif high
That was the goal, correct?
An individual stock.
art bell
Do.
And so that's plenty of motivation to be writing the kind of software that you Guys are dealing with.
However, what you seem to have run into in the process is something a lot bigger than that.
Am I grasping this correctly?
george ure
You're getting it.
clif high
You've got it.
In fact, it was rather shocking because while it was very good for my personal small number of shares investment with Microsoft because I saw the turn coming, it turns out that I was also able to look at larger and larger patterns.
Now, let me also stop and say that that happens to be my forte in software, is determining very early on in projects what are known as design patterns.
art bell
So in other words, you began to see beyond the immediacy of what you were trying to achieve with respect to, say, a single stock or whatever, you began to see other gathering groups of dots that indicated to you something else, right?
clif high
Correct.
art bell
How did you begin to discern that it meant or what it meant or what it might mean?
clif high
Or even beginning to decipher thinking about this sort of thing in general.
Eventually got to the point where I wrote the software, and then I had one of those my isn't that odd moments when I started getting back data and stuff that I hadn't really anticipated.
And then just being curious, I started digging into it.
It was only after reading some of the stuff that George had up about a subject called the debtberg that I realized that what my...
art bell
The debt-bird?
george ure
Berg.
clif high
Like iceberg.
art bell
Oh, berg.
The debt-berg, yes.
george ure
Yeah, in long-wave economics, this is kind of a weird one I'm sure to listen to tonight.
In long-wave economics, you can look at accumulated debt over a long-wave period.
clif high
Right.
george ure
When you have a big depression like the 30s, you repudiate a lot of debt.
And since the 30s, we've been compounding debt.
And at some point, debt has to roll over.
Yes.
And gets restructured.
And that got Cliff thinking, gee, there's more to this technology than picking the all-time high of Microsoft within three weeks.
art bell
Well, okay, it's completely understandable why you two started down the path you did and how you got together.
And so I see how this has occurred.
Well, this is the way a great deal of science happens.
You know, they start out looking for one thing or at one thing and stumble into something much, much bigger.
When was it when you had the aha moment when you said, hey, look at this.
We've got a whole lot more here than, you know, the requested Microsoft information or whatever company you're looking at.
We've got a whole lot more.
What the hell is this?
When was that?
clif high
That was really in June.
Some things started changing.
george ure
June of 2001, by the way.
art bell
All right, that's a good place to hold it right there, you two.
Okay, I get it.
You see, you see, folks, where we're headed here is down the Princeton Road.
We're talking about, as reflected in the web and collected by the bots that these gentlemen send out on the web, lots and lots of information from, I guess, the mass consciousness, because that's what it's all about, emotions, right?
unidentified
I think it's time to get ready to realize just what I have found.
I have to get no care of what I am.
It's all clear to me now.
My heart is on fire.
My soul's like a wheel that's turning.
Be it sight, sound, smell or touch, there's something inside that we need so much.
The sight of a touch or the scent of a sound or the strength of an oak who moves deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst up through tarmac to the sun again.
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing.
To lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing, to have all these things in our memory's heart, and they used them to come to us.
To hide!
Yeah!
To hide!
To hide my ashes, to take this place, on this trip, just for me.
To hide!
To hide!
To hide my ashes, to take this place, on this trip, just for me.
To hide!
To hide my ashes, to take this place, on this trip, just for me.
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art bell
Well, all right, this is a certified ride for sure.
I've got it.
I finally got it.
I know exactly the ground we're going down.
You all know about the experiments done at Princeton, don't you?
I think that mass consciousness may well be the most powerful force in the entire universe.
And maybe that's sticking my neck out a little bit, but I do believe that.
And I think Princeton is looking at the beginnings of that kind of with their own crystal set, in a way.
They put out all these little things they call eggs, not bots.
And these are computers spitting out random numbers at different geographic locations scattered around the world, reporting back to Big Mama at Princeton.
And there, they really have driven the chart right off the graph right off the chart every now and then by getting reports from these computers who suddenly, for some reason, begin not acting in such a random fashion, but suddenly acting with some coherence.
And that coherence shows up as a spike on a graph reported by all these computers.
And so what is it sending these computers right off scale with the non-randomness?
Well, it's the human mind.
And it would seem to spike around large national events like 911.
Just send it right off the chart.
We actually have the chart.
We could see it.
And so this to me was an amazing thing, followed up by a series of experiments that we did here on the air, one of them in conjunction with a show we did on what was going on at Princeton and elsewhere.
And now comes Georgior and Cliff, and I think they've walked into exactly the same realm.
They've just taken a different corridor to get there.
They were sending out these, well, bots, they'll call them, into the web.
And they were assigning numbers to words for emotional value.
And their purpose in doing this was monetary gain.
Let's be fair here.
They were looking at predicting what would happen with the market.
An admirable effort, I would say.
But in doing so, they were successful in that.
We'll ask about that.
But certainly in the process itself, very, very successful.
And then they began to see more than they were asking for in terms of results.
They began to see all kinds of spikes and strange things they could not explain, like the blips scene at Princeton.
And they began to put it together.
And to me, it looks like they're tapping into exactly the same perhaps ultimately strong signal when we separate it from the noise.
Maybe it is a very strong signal indeed, this mass consciousness thing.
But right now, it looks like it's mixed in more than we would want with the noise.
Signal to noise.
You always talk about that, right?
Well, maybe they'll find ways to pull more of the signal from the noise, or maybe they will at Princeton.
But all at once, I get exactly what we're talking about here.
We have found a way through the giant complex web to tap into information that's from essentially the collective, because what is the web?
Nothing but a large collector of everything, right?
That's what the web does.
It collects information on virtually everything, including people who have written things and emotional things at that.
And so these two gentlemen would appear to have walked into exactly the same beginning room that the Princeton people have.
Fascinating.
Perhaps the people at Princeton should be listening tonight.
We'll be right back.
unidentified
*Squeak*
art bell
Certainly, there is no greater single source of information, collective, current, contemporary human thought, no greater collection of it on the face of the earth, greater than on the Internet.
Wouldn't that be true?
george ure
Absolutely.
No question about it.
art bell
Was the analogy I gave of what Princeton began to detect with its form of crystal set and what you gentlemen have detected with your form of crystal set, looking into facts and emotions read by massive amounts of information from the Internet.
Is it a good parallel?
I mean, are you guys sort of looking at the same thing?
clif high
It was actually sort of bang on.
I mean, spot on in the sense that where I was used to seeing, as George had said earlier, we plot this stuff using a CAD program, a computer-aided design program that one might use to design machine parts or something.
art bell
Right.
clif high
And they have an ability to have an arbitrary space.
So I wanted something big, so I just defined an area that was 60 by 60 by 60.
And I was used to seeing these little dots representing a collection of information, a data set, if you will, moving about in a more or less chaotic and semi-random fashion.
Bearing in mind that each one might represent a company or how somebody felt about an industry or something like this because we were economically focused.
And then one day in June, about the same time I started discussing things with George in 2001, I noticed that we had a sudden shift, and all of a sudden these chaotic little darting dots started taking the shape of a dumbbell.
And I was rather astounded.
art bell
A dumbbell.
clif high
Correct.
They started narrowing in the middle as though they were going to form that part of the area that your hand might grasp.
And then there was a very definitive bulge at either end.
And it's not as discrete as I make it sound because the dots have a lot of space between them.
But nonetheless, it was still rather a startling thing to come up against.
art bell
And how do you interpret the meaning of that?
clif high
That was the issue.
Well, I started thinking, well, what really looks like is happening here is a shift in time and some kind of an incident or some sort of an event.
And so what I did was to shift it back and forth in time the way one might take a VCR and move back and forth over a series of frames.
And so I got a feeling for what was going on.
And then I started looking into the individual data sets that the individual dots represented.
And that's where we get back to this Y Ching kind of conclusion because These data sets are thick, syrupy masses of words boiled down into their essence.
And so it becomes hard to pick out a specific, if you will.
art bell
Okay.
But even a general.
clif high
I mean, how did you first discern the scary part was the very first thing I saw when I went on into the data set was that the core of it was the set of words that I had chosen previously to represent basically the moneyed interests of the planet.
That is to say, how currency flows, etc.
Because that, of course, is an element of confidence, which is an element of economic indications.
art bell
Absolutely, yes.
clif high
So my conclusion at the time was that, well, there appears that we're going to have a military accident involving the money center of the United States.
Because bear in mind, at the time, we were not modeling terrorism.
It didn't even have the word included.
george ure
Yeah, in fact, initially, when I read the first webbon output, and the paper is still up on my site, the conclusion that I drew was that something would go terribly wrong with the U.S. abrogating the anti-ballistic missile test treaty.
Because one of the things that became clear in hindsight was when we put up the original WebBot forecast in late June and then updated it July 2nd of 2001, we had no idea that this stuff we were picking off the Internet would take so long to materialize.
art bell
I'm still not clear, though, in simple language, how you came to either of the two conclusions that you just discussed based on the data that you described.
To me, that's where the leap is, and I can't figure out how you made it.
So how'd you make it?
clif high
You get to the point where you look at the movement of the dots through the model space, and then, of course, the interpretation is to see each dot, what it actually represents.
The dots have various different aspects and attributes that go into their creation.
And an aspect is a primary collection of words.
And then attributes modify those words.
So we might find within a central dot that all the others seem to be coalescing around words like currency, dollar, fed, this kind of thing.
The attributes then might be those words that brought in the emotionalism, usually verbs, many times adverbs, sometimes prepositional statements, etc.
art bell
Right, right.
clif high
Make sense?
art bell
Yes, it certainly does.
clif high
Okay, because see, it's not going to come back and say New York City, but we might indeed get some geographic indicators.
The more data we have, the more layers we can put on there.
And some words actually, by their nature, not merely place names, but other words indicate direction and are, for instance, primarily used in the South in form of regional dialects, so give us a geographic pointer.
art bell
All right.
george ure
Yeah, and Art, if I could, in the original WebBot work, we did get some directional indicators.
There were actually three that we put up on a map.
One of them was an interesting cloud of geographical indicators that was moving over Las Vegas toward California.
And that was in late June, which is interesting because that's about the time that the no-good Knicks were off partying in Las Vegas.
So, you know, needless to say, it was mind-boggling to me when I woke up on my sailboat in San Francisco, where I was at the time my wife and I were there.
I woke up the morning of 9-11, watched it in the aft cabin of the boat, and called my friends and called Cliff and said, did you see what happened?
And we're both sitting back going, wow, cool.
clif high
I was particularly crushed because I lost my entire legal and patent team in the incident.
They worked at Siddeley Austin, which was pretty well done.
art bell
I'm so sorry.
But how.
clif high
And I wish I'd known, you know, but of course, would anybody have done anything if someone wild-eyed showed up and said, hey, look at this.
art bell
Okay.
How much information did you have about the incident itself?
clif high
We had a great deal of information that was meaningless at the time.
Because, for instance, you can turn these dots and you can say to the program, show me the geographic layer.
And as George said, we saw clouds over Washington, a largest cloud over Washington, New York area, and another one over Vegas.
Or you could turn it and you could say, show me this particular layer and this kind of layer.
We had many details that indicated something was up and we interpreted them.
art bell
Okay.
With the Princeton information, they actually graph the noise.
You know, if you've ever seen an oscilloscope, for example, graphing a noise floor, they graph the noise floor of the normal random nature of the computers that they've got planted out around the world.
And then when things begin to go non-random, they receive that input, and it shows up as an actual little rise in a graph of the collective consciousness doing something,
coming up way up off the noise floor, and either knowing something is about to happen, or they're not exactly sure what it is they're seeing, but they're seeing these giant responses to events like 9-11 and a lot of others.
This work has been going on for some time now.
And I'm wondering if you see a similar, for example, on 9-11, did you see a similar spike that you would yell and scream was that far above your noise level?
clif high
We did, but it was in June.
It was months ahead of schedule.
art bell
You saw it ahead of the event.
You saw it in June.
clif high
In late June, early July.
art bell
Your main concerns were economics, or were you off understanding it meant something very different than an immediate economic situation for you?
clif high
Bear in mind, the economic situation that I was looking at was not necessarily personally focused, because at that time I had no further interest in the stock market per se, because I owned no stock.
So I was just interested in a general curious kind of a wink.
art bell
So you had already turned.
clif high
Correct.
And at that time, but because the central focus of it had been economic, and we kept picking it up as a military accident involving the money center of the United States slash the world with all of this other aspect about it, not realizing that when you think about a military accident and in a strange kind of a way, it sort of represents a terrorism.
george ure
You know what?
In radio, there's a very good analogy to the problem we're looking at when you think about something called spread spectrum.
art bell
Yes.
george ure
That's where you've got pieces of information.
art bell
That is a very good analogy.
Spread spectrum is transmitting perhaps sequentially on many, many, many, many frequencies at once.
So there's just a sort of a general rise in the noise floor if you can measure anything at all if you happen to be listening on a scanner or something like that.
I mean, spread spectrum to the individual frequency is almost transparent.
You just don't even know it's there.
george ure
Exactly.
And that's really what, in a sense, what Princeton's doing.
They're picking up the change in the noise as a burst of spread goes by.
What we're doing with webbots is we're trying to get, you know, we'll take a sample, but we'll only pick up appropriate pieces of that spread spectrum signal sporadically because we're still working on how the heck do you decode this stuff.
clif high
Also bear in mind, theirs comes through a purely mechanical approach in the sense that the devices that out there pick it up and react or don't.
What we're doing is much more subtle because we're working with the mind as a filter.
art bell
Yours actually might be, I don't know if it's more subtle or if you might argue it's more specific.
I'm not really sure yet.
But I don't think the people at Princeton have begun to discern yet what these giant spikes mean, whether it's good stuff, bad stuff, where it might be, that sort of thing.
It's just something that is coming from, you know, they're measuring that's apparently coming from the collective consciousness.
Since you're using words and assigning emotional meaning to those words, one could almost argue that yours is more specifically targeted than theirs.
clif high
And you would be correct.
And the underlying focus of the whole thing is really the fact that Princeton is approaching it from an academic.
We don't have to make a profit off of this.
Whereas we're out here trying to survive by our wits alone, and it's not that easy.
art bell
Well, could you have made lots of money using this in the stock market?
Because that's how the whole brainchild here began, right?
clif high
That was the goal.
art bell
So have either one of you become rich in the market using predictions made with that software yet?
george ure
Only because in my own case, I bought gold like crazy at 260.
Oh, the original work.
art bell
Based on what you saw as an output, right?
Well, then at 260, it's over 400 now.
Well, gee, you're doing very well.
Okay, that was one big question.
Now we'll proceed into the, I don't know, the I guess the heart of what's coming, because they will have predictions for us based on what they know.
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It is, and that's exactly where this program belongs, right out on the edge of what's happening that's barely discernible in the most exciting field that mankind will ever plow a furrow.
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This is exactly where this program ought to be.
My guests are George Ewer and a gentleman who declines to call himself anything but Cliff.
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art bell
Once again, George Ur and Cliff, and I think it's very important for the audience to understand, again, Cliff is not giving his last name simply because of the sensitivity of the programs and the code that he's writing and the fact that he's using it openly on the web and he is subject to many a web attack as you might imagine he would be.
So for that reason, he's not further identifying himself and I identify with that problem.
Believe me, Cliff, I really do.
clif high
I'm sure you do.
art bell
So you guys did okay with gold.
Now do you realize, I guess by now you have both realized the implications of the program are much bigger than just making a buck, right?
george ure
Absolutely.
In fact, following the 911 event, when my wife and I got our sailboat down to San Diego, Cliff and I responded to a Department of Defense broad area announcement, or BAA.
And I consider myself pretty darn good at PowerPoints, but you see how difficult it is to explain what we're doing.
And the problem with this broad area announcement was I had to boil everything, including two years of budget, down into a single PowerPoint slide.
art bell
Wow.
george ure
And so, you know, if somebody sent you a PowerPoint slide that said basically, hi, we think we can see the future.
We need a couple of million bucks, a lot of bandwidth.
art bell
I clearly see the problems.
A lot of bandwidth.
You would need a lot of bandwidth.
george ure
On the other hand, I just sent you an email so you can actually see the timestamp on it.
We have informally passed some of the more recent WebBot outputs to the military.
Oh.
And I forwarded to you a time stamp copy of, which was sent back to me at my request by some friends in the military.
And I forwarded that to you.
Please don't use their name or which unit and so forth.
But it documents that we forecast what seemed like, well, appears to have been the Northeast power outage 45 days before it took place.
The timestamp that you have is July 2 at 1.50 p.m.
art bell
What did you at that time say was going to happen?
You looked at all the information and concluded that there was going to be a power outage?
george ure
Well, not exactly.
Cliff had in late June done a scaled-down run of the WebBot looking for the next terrorist attack.
And so what the WebBot said was the entity is, and I'll read this verbatim, the Wahhabi entity is seen as preparing an attack on a site with aspects of South with specific references to a place where the wood in the earth grows upward.
Nearby will be an energy plant filled with tremendous effort work.
The target chosen for the entity has associations with a vertical wall ascent, near which is a low land or low-lying area from which there rises power and influence or confluence.
This latter may suggest a site where a power plant sits at the base of a cliff or naturally occurring wall.
Now, it goes on from there, including some of the more interesting phrases.
Further, there are references to an empty city nearby the target, and one of my website readers suggested that sure sounds like an electrical switchyard with rows of transformers because that looks kind of like an empty city when you think about it.
art bell
You know, in the manner that you just described what turned out to be the power outage, I would have expected a very similar output, if you will, from a remote viewer.
I mean, in almost the same language, in fact.
Not quite, but almost the same language.
george ure
Yeah, but the difference is they had $100 million or whatever.
art bell
Well, I know.
george ure
Yeah, I mean, this is like a couple of wingnuts in a garage deal.
clif high
Let's not miss Art's point.
I also noticed that sort of thing when I first started doing the interpretation, that all the language seems to, in the process of boiling down to this thick, syrupy mass, also seems to condense down to what I called archetypes.
Not the Jungian archetypes.
But nonetheless, the same sort of archetypes that you're correct are presented by remote viewers and other people that are wielding some form of psychic phenomenon.
art bell
Well, the language of description sounded very similar.
clif high
And we also find it in the I Ching, as George noted earlier.
It seems to go back.
I've also noticed similar things in even older books like the parables of Zoroster.
art bell
All right, as you have described this process to others, whilst no doubt begging for funds to get the bandwidth to proceed on a larger scale, what kind of response back have you received?
clif high
CIA thought it was interesting.
Did they?
They actually have a little venture capital group called Intel Q. It's actually IntQ, Tel Cliff always.
Yeah, sorry, I'm a good flip.
That's been one of my issues is that I'm self-taught because I'm not a particularly good student.
So schooling was an issue, but education is not, if that makes sense.
art bell
It's all right.
Intel's in all our heads.
clif high
There we go.
In any event, the CIA sent us back a nice little letter.
I had to prepare a business plan for them, which I did.
And they said, boy, this is interesting, and we sure would like to look at it further.
But basically, what it came down to was it's a little on the left field kind of thing, and we've already funded seven projects, and we're not even really sure how to categorize this.
But it sure is interesting.
art bell
It sure is interesting, and they sure sound like they're interested.
Perhaps if you can move to the next level, take it to the next level, get a little more documentation under your belt on this, you'll get more than just passing interest.
clif high
That may be.
It's a very onerous and difficult process without the funding behind it.
Doing that kind of thing at a two-man level is excruciating for both George and myself.
art bell
How much bandwidth are you working with now?
clif high
At the moment, I'm, well, I don't want to say I'm stealing bandwidth, but I'm big borrowing, and people have been very kind to run some of my programs for me.
So basically, we're dealing with cable modem kind of things.
art bell
Right.
clif high
And I should be dealing with T1s, at them, bare minimum, fractional T1s.
art bell
At least.
clif high
The difference really is the number of reads we get.
I'm working now with one, maybe two million over the course of three or four days, and I ought to be doing 100 million a day.
art bell
Well, it's still amazing what one can do with even limited, but general broadband capability.
I mean, I can understand how you're getting the results, but just try and imagine if you had computational power thousands of times greater than you've got now, as in perhaps a cray of some sort, and unlimited bandwidth, heaven only knows what you might come up with.
clif high
Well, you're describing what the Chinese have.
george ure
Yeah, I was going to mention that.
What was it, Tinghua or some such clip?
art bell
The Chinese.
clif high
The cauldron, yeah.
art bell
The Chinese?
unidentified
What do they have to do with it?
art bell
Are they offering you bandwidth?
george ure
No, no, they're running a similar project, apparently.
art bell
Oh, now, how do you know that?
clif high
Part of our program art is the spiders themselves are looking for particular words, and they carry around with them a lexicon, and they sort of like sweep little bits of the internet.
art bell
Well, then bib down simply, have your spiders met their spiders?
clif high
You have it.
Oh, my accidental handshake, and we caught some of their source code.
art bell
Oh, my.
Really?
You caught their source code or something?
clif high
They were using a type of spider that ran on a Unix box that loads itself.
It goes and reads the robot.txt file at the head of each Unix server and then loads itself and runs on that server.
I don't run that way.
I don't take the processing resources from the servers I'm accessing.
But they were stealing processing time, if you will, and I caught some of their source code because it was resident on a server I was sweeping.
art bell
Ooh, nasty.
Nasty, nasty.
clif high
That's what they thought.
art bell
well, what do you mean?
Holy mackerel.
Holy mackerel.
Really?
clif high
Oh, yes.
art bell
So not only did you get some of their source code and meet one of their bots, but they know you exist as well now.
clif high
That's pretty much it.
art bell
And once they found out you existed, there was hell to pay, in other words.
clif high
Let me say that even today, this was, George, when was that we first encountered the Chinese?
george ure
Let's see, I think that was when we were right after we did Attack on House for Assembly.
clif high
That would have been November-ish of 2001, perhaps.
george ure
Yeah, yeah, right around the time of the anthrax attack.
Which we, unfortunately, because I'm on a different computer than I was on the boat, and yada, yada, we had numerous other hits along the way when we ran the bots.
We picked up some aspects of attack on house or assembly.
We got some aspects of the American 587 crash.
And interestingly, in February of 2003, we were picking up all kinds of things having to do with maritime disaster, great maritime disaster.
And that turned out apparently to have been the space shuttle Columbia disaster, which was a spaceship.
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And Columbia, the middle of the ocean, all that.
george ure
But that's the problem with this I Ching kind of stuff.
art bell
Of course.
george ure
We just need more power.
And interestingly, and I think I can say this safely, Cliff, the Chinese project apparently is taking much bigger chunks of text, which means they've probably got mainframes to roll on.
art bell
Let me ask a question about the Chinese source code, if I could.
Was there any way at all to decipher any aspect of that Chinese code?
It was written in straight C. Yeah, and if you were able to, how similar an approach were you able to discern they were taking with regard to what you do?
clif high
They were, that was what was so shocking was that to a certain extent they were operating off of some of the same design patterns that I had also discovered.
So I recognized almost instantly, as soon as I saw the few function templates that I had captured, I recognized them as being that same algorithm.
And so I went looking for, within that chunk of code, I tracked it down within my input from my bot and went and read the entire 2048 bytes.
That's all that I bring back is 2048, excuse me, 2048 word chunks.
And I was actually looking at their code and it was remarkably similar.
Mine is more efficient because I'm poor and don't have the resources that they're putting towards it.
So whereas their whole lexicon is based around phonetic groupings, I've distilled everything down to integers just because it's easier for machines to deal with integers than it is word groups.
art bell
It must have been an awful shock suddenly realizing, uh-oh.
clif high
I think George heard me in Florida when I discovered what I was looking at.
Because, first off, I saw it as validation.
Bear in mind that for years, since like 97, I've been pretty much toiling in the little garage here, not even knowing if my basic premise was successful or would be successful.
art bell
Well, do you have any sense of the source in China?
You probably wouldn't.
I mean, is it another guy like?
clif high
Well, no, no, we know precisely where it's going.
Because of the Chinese, by the way, the way they approached it was to have their spiders use other than usual email connections.
See, mine used to email me the data back.
Theirs doesn't use email.
It sends it back through a regular IP channel, and so had certain clues as to where it was going.
And so we actually found the place in central China where it was headed to, which turned out to be a military city.
art bell
Really?
Yes.
So you have run into a Chinese program emanating from a military base looking at exactly the same kind of information you're looking at.
Any feeling on how sophisticated their code was compared to what you seem to be doing now?
clif high
It's very difficult to say because bear in mind, of course, all we've really seen is their gathering component.
We don't know about their processing component.
True, there were clues in the gathering component as to what they were looking for, but no clues as to what they might be doing with it once they had it.
art bell
Well, but any clues in the gathering section of the code that would have you make a judgment about the sophistication of the program's entirety?
clif high
The judgment I was making was based on having been in software for 20-plus years, being a C master.
And seeing how they approached it, they were not concerned with bandwidth.
They were not concerned with volume data, so they had all kinds of potential processing power.
And correct, there were some clues as to what they were interested in, and they were very much interested in the same kind of emotional aspects, if you will, the confidence factors relating to both economic and military.
And in our case, specifically of the United States, but I don't think it's limited to that.
art bell
That's been your one instance of running into another entity, if you will?
clif high
Correct.
We've discovered no one else's code or software, but once the Chinese became aware of us, we were suddenly a little hotspot from all over the planet.
art bell
And then the onslaught, I guess, huh?
Was it your view that they were trying to recognize perhaps that you were not a large enough operation and that attacking you electronically would prevent you from progressing?
clif high
No, that's not my opinion.
I think that what they were attempting to do was to probe and see exactly what I was doing.
It's relatively rare to encounter other intelligent agents on the net and to be able to see that your source code, for instance, in this case, was taken.
So they must have been rather startled, just as I was.
And so I think they were just more curious as to, well, what's this guy doing?
art bell
Yeah, I can imagine so.
So you think the attacks then were aimed at cracks.
They were trying to get information from your computer.
clif high
Correct.
art bell
So they weren't like, I'm sorry, like denial of service attacks or anything like that.
Correct.
clif high
It was nothing at all like that.
They were attempting to probe and get in on specific IP ports.
And see, I run, for a time, I was interested in doing security work, and I made a honeypot out of Prolog.
And a HoneyPod is a thing that monitors your ports and pretends to be a particular operating system to sort of invite them in to see what they're going to attempt to do.
So I could sit there and watch some of their attacks initially until I got bored with it.
art bell
Well, what did their attacks...
clif high
Correct.
They wanted to see what was on my hard disk, and they were attempting to specifically look for source code relating to DLL in a compiled or exposed C form.
art bell
Oh, brother.
All right, this is fascinating stuff.
George Yore and Cliff are my guests, and what they've walked into.
My goodness.
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What these gentlemen have stumbled on, of course, is enormous.
Does it surprise me?
Well, yes, a little bit, but not that much, because when there's something like this, the human race can something new like mass consciousness, control of it, monitoring of it, using it for forecasting, when there's a new force that's suddenly realized, it's typically realized in many places, if not simultaneously, very close.
That just seems to happen to the human race.
Ideas seem to coalesce in the human race at about the same time.
Well, this is fascinating.
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art bell
Gentlemen, do you think that today's psychics are going to be replaced tomorrow by computers?
george ure
You want me to tackle that one, Cliff?
clif high
Totally does.
george ure
It's real simple.
I don't think so.
The psychic experience is usually an individual thing, at least when you have one of those things happen to you yourself.
So, in terms of individuals and exploring their own consciousness, I don't think computers can replace it.
On the other hand, there is this what seems to be a spread spectrum kind of thing where certain types of knowledge of the future appear to be dispersed broadly across the Internet if you know how to lay seven or eight layers of prologue against language shift.
Dean Radin's work up at boundaryinstitute.org was really one of the markers that I found very interesting.
And if you haven't read his paper on time-reversed human perception, it's really a classic because what he demonstrates is...
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Phenomenal brain power.
And what he demonstrated in a lab is that five to six seconds Before you see an emotionally charged picture, your body begins to react before you've actually seen it, implying that you've got five seconds of lead time at least that's measurable in a lab.
art bell
The thing is, though, the individual human psychic has not been particularly reliable.
It tends to be a sort of happenstance kind of thing when you're talking about individual human experiences.
And the reason I asked the question about machines replacing psychics is because machines are far more disciplined.
clif high
The problem with that, though, Art, is that imagine the situation that we have with psychics.
The reason that they're unreliable has to do with the body.
It's various changing chemical constituents, hormonal influences, etc.
It can't be the same from time after time after time.
Yet this is the antenna that we're using to pick up the vibrations that are coming back to us on the time stream.
And that antenna is sometimes tuned and sometimes isn't.
The problem is at our stage here is really what initially George was also of this opinion was that our computer is not really our antenna.
It's merely more our receiver.
We still need the humans as the antenna.
art bell
But I mean, everything you're saying goes nowhere in saying no to what I said.
I mean, ultimately, it seems to me that some future form of what you're doing or, I don't know, what's being done at Princeton, all of this is going to coalesce into a pretty fine, reliable receiver or turn.
Whatever you want to call it.
Yeah, much more reliable than an individual human experience.
clif high
There is one problem how I used to explain it to George and anybody who asked.
It's rather odd that you would ask that question about psychics because I used to explain it this way, and people could grasp it relatively easily.
Imagine that there's 10,000 psychics born to every million people.
Only most of these 10,000 don't know they're psychic.
They are, but they're just not aware of it.
Well, some of that psychic ability is leaking through in the language that they use on a day-to-day basis.
They're just noting the changes.
art bell
Yeah, I'm sure it is.
But you're doing so in an already far more disciplined manner.
So as you refine this, I really do see it taking over the job of a psychic.
george ure
There is a problem with it, Art.
And the problem with it is that, by their nature, web bots only pick up, unfortunately, large-scale negative emotions so far.
art bell
Well, they're the strong ones that we seem to have.
george ure
Yeah, and in the psychic world, the individual psychic might be able to tune into something more positive.
art bell
I don't know.
My experience with psychics, people who look at future world events, some of the very best in the world, I get to interview them, as well as people who work in the realm of remote viewing.
I mean, all of this I sort of lump together.
And when I look at it, frankly, it's exactly the same realm that you all are working in, whether you know it or not.
It really is the same realm, I'm convinced.
clif high
You're saying then that you think that more negative information comes back than positive.
art bell
Well, I know it does.
I interview the people who do this, so I know.
And so you're getting the same kind of negative stuff.
clif high
Well, it may be then that we're limited to that's the tuning on our receivers, our antennas, and we just may have to figure out a new way to tune them.
It may be that we could do that with the computers.
art bell
It would be my opinion that you're just getting what's out there.
clif high
Yeah.
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Yeah, that's probably quite accurate.
art bell
Yeah, you're just getting what's out there, and you're all looking at the same thing.
But you're doing it in so much more of a disciplined way.
Where are you going to take, how are you going to go to the next level of support?
I suppose it would, yes.
clif high
I mean, literally, we run up against a money wall because in order to take it to the next level, right at the moment, our lexicon that we're working with, words that we match against, is about 250,000 in size.
Our original 110,000 Oxford English dictionary that I more or less borrowed when I was having some discussion with him and then altered for my own purpose, as well as all the new words that we've populated, including geographic references and so on.
But that could easily be a million words.
Also bear in mind that even though I know a number of different other human languages, I'm not a native speaker of them.
Therefore, I'm reluctant to assign an emotional value to a particular word in another language, not knowing, for instance, how a particular word in Sanskrit is.
art bell
Well, that's why you need the CIA.
clif high
That's why we need linguists to do this on a serious way, correct?
art bell
Or some large agency to pocket.
They are the exact people who should be interested in this.
Now, have you had any follow-up to the letter from the CIA at all?
Or are you going to follow up?
clif high
We've had some follow-up from them in the sense that they're still interested and they want to keep our information on file, so at least they're not round filing it.
Right.
But we've also had some discussions with those people that might be considered to be primary contractors for the government under Department of Defense work.
And the problem I've run into in discussing the thing with the managers is trying to get the concept across.
And while the value is implied, the methodology sounds so strange that it sounds basically too unreliable to.
art bell
Yeah, well, here's the road that I think you're going to have to take.
You're going to have to refine this to the point where you do what you just did, even as unsavory as it may seem.
You sent me an email with a time stamp on it.
You're going to have to begin to log, record predictions, even if they're just very general predictions for a certain time.
I don't Know how specific you can get at this point, but you're going to have to begin to log a record, and at least, if nothing else, at the end of the day, or quite a few days, you all will develop a record that will defy somebody not to look into how you're doing it.
That may be an unsavory way for you to pursue this, but I don't see any other course right now.
Do you?
clif high
I don't think we're opposed to that, and we've, in fact, been doing that ever since, what, August, George, August of 2001, when we first started time-stamping with the military?
george ure
Right.
So, yeah, we've got timestamps on, I think, four or five of the web bots so far.
art bell
And they all came out positive with respect to your forecast?
clif high
Correct, more or less, in the sense that, for instance, when everybody was running around saying the D.C. sniper was a lone white individual in a white van, we had information indicating it was two individuals, one with a subservient relationship to the other related to the military, Islam was involved, and all these other.
george ure
Family problems, yeah.
clif high
Yeah.
art bell
Wow.
george ure
And in fact, it's kind of curious.
One of the readers of my website actually sent in the insignia from Fort Lewis of the particular Army group.
I mean, we had things that were associated with military paratrooper kinds of things, including globes circling above and so forth.
And to us, you know, it's like, okay, we've been there, we've time stamped, and I think really one of our motivations for being on your show tonight is to put it out there because we're confident there are other researchers.
And, for example, Princeton, I mean, if you took the Princeton Egg Project and married it up with our project, you know, it's like getting a number of different perspectives.
And if you can then take all of those, it's like diversity receivers almost.
art bell
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And there may be others out there.
Who knows what kind of research is going on?
Again, when was that real aha moment when you described that again, when you realized that instead of just seeing a sort of a return expected on economic data that you were seeking, which is a legitimate reason to have started into all of this, to begin to see these other things?
clif high
It was really in June of 2001.
Now, bear in mind, I'd been plotting this since perhaps mid-1999 in IntelliCAD, and I was used to seeing, for all intents and purposes, it looks like fireworks.
I mean, there are various different little colored dots that appear to move in short little bursts as I advance the program.
And all of a sudden, there was this aha moment because the movement of the dots no longer was sort of little jerky and random.
They all coalesced into what specifically looked like a tipping point.
And that's when I contacted George and said, George, all right.
art bell
Listen, aside from the work you're doing right now, you wrote that you have some concerns about the future of the Internet itself.
What are those?
What are you worried about?
george ure
I think there are a couple of things that are interesting about the Internet.
One is that the Internet is this place where consciousness can coalesce into groups, news groups, discussion groups, and so forth.
And it's not from, you know, when you step back and look at it from the longwave economic perspective, it's not at all dissimilar to the period that happened in the late 1920s.
If you recall, radio was the new technology of the 1920s.
And when the country ran into a huge economic mess in the 1930s in the Depression, one of the things the government did was slapped regulations on use of radio, and that was all embodied in the Communications Act of 1933.
clif high
Which resulted in several thousand radio companies being condensed into relatively few.
george ure
Right.
There was a tremendous contraction.
I think it's a reasonable concern to look at the Internet the same way.
I mean, right now, anybody can put a server up as both Cliff and I have done.
And I figure it's probably only a matter of time until government figures out that, hey, we really ought to regulate the number of servers because the amount of bandwidth, yada, yada.
clif high
Licensing.
But again, we've already seen a huge deterioration in the Internet itself in the sense that when we began the project in the heyday of 1999 with the Internet bubble really expanding to its maximum point, since then, I have found hundreds, literally hundreds of servers that have been taken offline as companies have gone out of business.
And these servers hosted far more than just company information frequently.
They acted as email servers, routers for news groups, et cetera.
art bell
So what are you trying to tell me?
I mean, surely the Internet is not in decline.
Sounds like you're saying that.
Well, it sounds like, well, what do you mean it certainly is?
clif high
In terms of the total number of hosts, potential Internet server hosts.
Now, bear in mind, it's a distributed system.
So the more servers make the whole system that much more robust.
And if an Internet company in Seattle goes out of business and takes 1,200 servers offline.
art bell
Yeah, that's a big deal.
All right.
But I mean, in general, the Internet seems like it's growing in popularity for the people using it.
clif high
It seems to be concentrating, sir.
I don't want to dispute you because you're correct in specific areas.
The popularity is increasing, and for my line of work, so to speak, it's very good because the part of the popularity that's increasing are the discussion boards, the human-to-human interaction that I want to try and capture.
art bell
Fertile ground for you.
clif high
Correct.
But at the same time, a lot of the resources and the computing power that we were using to capture some of that is now gone in the sense that I don't know how many Internet companies have gone bust in the blow-up, but up in Seattle, there were probably quite literally on the order of maybe 4,000 or 5,000 servers that went offline with just that little area alone when its Internet companies went bust.
art bell
Might that not be part of the shorter economic cycle, George?
george ure
Sure, sure, absolutely, absolutely.
But on the longer time scale, one of the concerns we've had in the WebBot outputs has been that they keep seeming to indicate that from November 2003 forward, and this goes back to some of our 2001 runs, there was some question about the relevance of the U.S. Fed and the future of the overall global economy.
And that's kind of worrisome stuff, especially now that since November the decline of the dollar has picked up speed.
I'm just noticing, you know, you have the thing from that gold group.
We've had the price of gold trading just here in the time your show's been on.
We're only $1.20 away from $4.20 gold.
And so one of the real questions is, gosh, here we've got this really cool technology, and the threats to it are, one, we could be right and the Fed could become irrelevant along with the U.S. standing as the global reserve currency.
Then there's the dropping number of, what was the dropping number of servers.
I think we've seen it stabilize, and I think we'll see growth resume.
But then there's the issue of taxation.
When something gets successful enough, you know, the government looks at it and says, hey, this is a deep pocket for us, and we've got a $44 trillion black hole in the budget.
art bell
Yeah, I frequently wonder how much longer we've got the essential free ride on the Internet.
Do I sense it's about to come to a crashing halt?
george ure
Well, I don't think so because we haven't really had all of the long-wave economic depression markers.
art bell
You've got to be careful not to choke the baby in the cradle.
george ure
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
On the other hand, some of the things, you know, the last time we made a V12 engine in the U.S. was back in the Depression.
And I noticed that I think it's 2004 or 2005, Cadillac's coming out with its V12.
art bell
Well, you guys are in the new big business coming for the Internet.
I mean, you should think that way.
Think big, right?
george ure
Well, yeah.
art bell
I mean, predicting the future, that's no small matter.
Definitely no small matter.
So, gentlemen, hold on.
That's a big business to be in, predicting the future.
Going on out into the internet.
Reading the emotion of the masses.
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That's what they're doing.
art bell
And they're getting awfully specific about some predictions.
We're going to talk about that more when we get back.
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Very interesting, isn't it, that the information gleaned from writing these programs, these bots, and sending them out into the net looking for response from the collective, really?
That's what it is.
That's certainly what we're talking about.
Collective consciousness.
It's predictive, and I guess it's timeless.
In other words, you can look forward into the future, or perhaps to calibrate what you're doing, like Princeton, you can look into the past as well.
We'll ask about that.
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art bell
Okay, listen, everything I'm hearing from these gentlemen makes absolute, absolute sense to me.
And if you followed along with the Princeton story, the experiments that we've done on the air over the years, and now what George and Cliff have stumbled into.
And I think it's fair to say they did stumble into it based on what I've heard.
I mean, they had good intentions, surely, in what they were doing.
Nothing wrong with making a buck, trying to figure out what stocks or the stock market is going to do.
Nothing wrong with that in the world.
People have been writing programs and trying to figure out ways to take a look, see at what's going to happen with stocks for a long time.
So nothing wrong with trying to get Rich, and that's what probably the motivation was, and that's cool.
But then you stumble into something else, something totally unexpected like this, and it probably isn't going to make you much money, is it?
At this point, yeah, yeah.
In fact, it's probably going to cost you, in fact, it's going to cost you money to even get this thing off its wobbly legs and get going, isn't it?
It already costs you money, I bet.
clif high
It already has.
We've been diverted because we kind of got our focus shifted once we discovered what it was capable of and no longer really pursued the individual stock kind of thing.
And so have kind of, I don't want to say abandoned that, but take another larger direction.
art bell
Understood.
All right, I want to tell the audience it's going to be perhaps problematic trying to take calls when we have two guests.
So I'm going to be relying on Fast Blast a lot here, which is a way to send us a message on the Internet.
Just go to coastcoastam.com and look for Fast Blast and then fire me off one.
Here is one from Richard in Toronto.
He says another interesting thing about the Princeton strike on 9-11, a spike rather on 9-11, was that the chart spiked up a couple of hours before the attack hit, as if to suggest humanity might have sent something.
Or the couple of hours prior was when the first terrorists began their move, or it was reacting to the terrorists.
When I've discussed this with others, they didn't know.
Was this spike representative of some general collective consciousness knowing that something was about to happen?
Or could it have been reading the minds of the hijackers who were about to end their own lives?
These would have been very strong emotions.
clif high
I would presume the former, simply because the way I think about it is the chorus line in the theater analogy.
You've got a chorus line, say the Rockettes or something.
All these nice women going into a theater.
It gets dark.
They're going to watch a movie on their break or something.
And one woman at the end of a row feels something on her foot, and she instantly thinks it's a mouse, and she jumps up and screams.
And in the darkened theater, with the heightened tension of the film and etc., and one woman after another within this line screaming simply because the woman next to her screamed, we get this generated emotion.
Now, I can see that the people that are involved would be there, since they're screaming at their own frequency, so to speak, if they had been psychic or were tuned, could have perceived themselves screaming in the future simply because they're the best antenna for their own vibration.
Does that make sense?
art bell
I think so, yes.
And here's another one for you.
I asked this of the people doing some of the Princeton-type work, and that is, is there a way of calibrating your response?
I mean, surely what you're looking into is not measured in time.
In other words, the future, the present, the past, it's all sort of mushed together.
clif high
One big goulash.
art bell
Right.
So is there any way, I wonder, of, I mean, after all, we know what's happened in the past, save those politically resurrected and changed events in history.
But basically, we know when large, very large events occurred.
Is there any way of calibration by looking back?
george ure
Unfortunately, to do that, we would have to have had the bots pretty much continuously deployed and have been building model space more or less continuously.
Then, yes, we might be able to go back.
Incidentally, there's a run, a very short run.
I think it's under 2 million samples that Cliff did over the past couple of days, which is up on his website.
And one of the things that's unique about this particular run is it focuses on immediacy.
So in other words, back to that Toronto listener's question, what seems to happen is there's this shift in language that happens, let's say, 45 to 60 days before a major emotional event.
And then a couple of hours before the event, as think of it as this quantum potential for an event moves forward in time, it begins to get into a non-linear curve and begins, the potential rises at an exponential rate.
And at some point, as it ascends this exponential probability curve, the Princeton eggs go, yep, that's it.
And then the event itself is the actual realization of the quantum change.
Does it make sense?
art bell
I believe so.
And so potentially your method of sending out these bots would be better at longer range predictions than what Princeton has demonstrated so far.
Would that be fair?
george ure
Yeah, I think so, Cliff.
clif high
I would say that that's very fair.
In fact, at this stage, I actually saw the real value in this technology being able to be applied as, say, an overlay to what the FBI or NSA or somebody might be doing on a specific level.
art bell
Sure.
clif high
Say, don't waste your time looking at that particular area.
Go and look at this area.
It's more likely to find profit for you.
art bell
All right.
Well, yeah, speaking of that, you're on a national radio program right now.
A fairly rare opportunity, perhaps, and certainly an opportunity for you to take any data, let's say, for the coming year that you feel at all confident about and getting it out here and now publicly.
There's nothing like a whopper of a prediction made ahead of time on national radio.
It has great effect.
clif high
I wish we had a whopper to make.
george ure
The run that Cliff just did, one interpretation of the run that was just posted This afternoon was that, or let's see, this afternoon East Coast time, this morning West Coast time, was that we will,
an interpretation is that we could see an attack by a male and female attacker using three explosives to set off some form of respiratory distress weapon in a crowded place which was approached from a tunnel.
And it's very unlikely that that's really what's going to happen.
But there's something that, if the immediacy reads are correct, might happen over Wetcliffe the next week.
clif high
Timing has always been our real issue.
I mean, initially we thought the tipping point was going to be closer to July of 2001.
I gave it a lesser probability the further we went away from July, but nonetheless, within our boundary of 60 days, it came near the end.
So I would have to say my most abysmal failure has been in predicting the timing involved.
But George is correct.
We've got a reading.
At the moment, it has some details.
For instance, it says that the attacking pair, the male and the female, will split.
The female will pursue a conservative path.
The male will question his, I don't know, mission or whatever you want to say.
We also know that of the three falling fruit, which is how it came out this time, that two will be, or one will be saved was the actual wording.
And that may be able to be interpreted as three projectiles or bombs or something, one of which would be stopped from exploding.
Might be the reverse, because we don't know which viewpoint it has.
In other words, is this seeing this from the viewpoint of the attackers or from the defenders?
art bell
Okay, circling this up, you're telling me there's going to be a biological attack.
clif high
No, not biological.
It'll cause respiratory distress.
That could be.
art bell
Well, I assumed, I'm sorry.
It could be chemical.
Perhaps a chemical attack with two or three bombs perpetrated by a man and a woman.
Is that?
clif high
Correct.
But now also look at this.
Let me be very specific since we're getting in this.
art bell
You are getting very specific.
clif high
No, no, I mean much more specific than that in the sense that the data that I gathered, I did so over the past four days.
And since we don't have a lot of data, we don't have enough to cause a shift forward in time to apply that to it.
So we're looking at a snapshot, not really a little tiny movie.
In addition to that, the projection may be talking about how people are perceiving the current events around the British airway flights.
And I'll let George talk about how we perceived the terrorist attack on the causing the blackout.
art bell
George?
unidentified
Well, yeah, we saw it as terrorism.
george ure
Right, because we were looking for terrorism.
And when the Northeast power outage occurred, what's the first thing that went through everyone's mind?
art bell
Terrorism.
george ure
Oh, my God.
Exactly.
art bell
All right.
So did you find terrorism because that was a collective thought, or did you find it because that's what it was?
george ure
I've got to defer to programming on that one.
clif high
That I don't know.
And if we did know that, we would be that much further along.
art bell
Yeah.
clif high
There's many unknowns in this art, as you must ponder yourself.
art bell
I do all the time.
Believe me, I do all the time.
And so I know I understand you're not grasping that aspect yet.
So that tells me where you are.
clif high
And see, we have to be intellectually honest about this.
If we're going to make a prediction, we've got to lay out everything we can and say we can't go any further because we just don't have enough data.
art bell
You were pretty specific about this particular incident.
And again, with regard to timetable, it's inside 60 days, you're suggesting.
clif high
No, within this one that we've been talking about today, I would say it was within a week.
art bell
Within a week.
clif high
It may come out that over the next week we find out that the reason that they withheld the British airlines flights may have been because they were looking for a man and a woman, and what we're picking up now is stuff that's hidden.
unidentified
Could be.
art bell
Certainly could be.
It's been a puzzle for me until now, and really it still is, what they're doing with these airliners.
I mean, somehow this is just basic thinking, but you would imagine that if they had enough specific information about a specific flight, they would have perhaps even names.
And so the expectation would be there'd be some kind of arrest that would have potentially come out of all this.
I don't know.
It's interesting.
Pondering their actions, you can imagine what kind of data they have they're working with.
clif high
Actually, I feel for them because it's the same kind of thing that we have, this rather muddy, murky stew that you sort of fish around with, and you look at the haul something up and say, well, what does this mean?
art bell
You don't think, do you, that they're utilizing any technology like we've been discussing tonight as any part of their equation, do you?
clif high
There's more likelihood that it's occurring now than two years ago.
unidentified
Huh.
clif high
Because they do seem to be getting better at it, don't they?
george ure
What we know.
art bell
Well, I don't know.
I don't know yet.
Are they getting better at it?
No arrests yet.
They've just held up flight.
So are they getting better?
clif high
Well, but at the same time, if you notice, there's a number of arrests that are occurring globally.
See, one of the problems or one of the opportunities I have is that most of my formative years were spent outside the United States.
So I have a much more global view of things, and I have a tendency to look at a lot of the various different non-United States news sources.
art bell
Right.
clif high
And we do see a different perspective.
We see that there is some more focus, if you will.
So they may indeed be deploying something along these lines.
Well, we know, in fact, that Raytheon, one of the subcontractors, is approaching something like it.
art bell
Okay, we know one thing for sure, and that is, knock on wood, nothing Gigantic at all has happened since 9-11.
So one possible reasonable conclusion would be that our intelligence services are somehow doing a really good job because nothing has happened.
clif high
Well, better, yeah.
art bell
Better.
Well, right.
No major incident.
So maybe they're doing okay.
That's certainly one conclusion.
Your prediction goes down the avenue of suggesting that these terrorists will be successful.
In other words, your prediction encompasses the bombs going off.
clif high
That's inevitable, though.
When one looks at things rationally, we're in a very unfortunate position as the receiving end of asymmetric warfare.
We simply have to stand there and be ready 100% of the time, 24 by 7, 365.
So it is inevitable that our readiness will be found, a hole will be found in it, and something will occur.
george ure
The interesting distinction part is how our technology works versus some of the technology that's being pursued publicly by the government.
I think everyone's probably heard about Coindexter's great marrying of all databases into a single massive lookup.
And that's worthwhile technology, but it's very focused drill-down technology.
In other words, Art Bell goes out to the airport and people can see that Art Bell had a speeding ticket in 1903 or whatever.
This technology doesn't give you that kind of drill down.
Rather, it says surveying all the people going to McCarran Airport.
Look for somebody who smokes cigarettes once in a while and has a good voice and is about this tall.
So, you know, there are several ways to approach the problem of intelligence.
And Cliff characterizes this as really a fourth-ordered thinking approach versus a third-order thinking approach, which marrying of databases is.
art bell
Fascinating.
You can't smoke in McCarran, save these stupid little rooms where you're all choked to death.
But aside from that, no, I understand.
They do seem to be operating with that kind of level of data based on their actions.
I mean, that's pretty loose, I admit, but after all, we're stopping airliners.
We don't know why.
We don't know what they're doing.
george ure
But it could be something that was picked up by Carnivore or any of the other email surveillance kind of thing.
art bell
Yeah, it could have been.
george ure
So we don't know.
And they could just talk about going from England to America in an email, and that would be very specific.
And I'd not want to be on that airplane myself.
clif high
On the other hand, if we look at things from our bot perspective, if we had had the ability to do them in a native Arabic fashion, even if, in this case, the ones who have declared themselves to be the enemies of the Western world, the Al-Qaeda, were using a cell structure, they still rely on familial relationships.
So somebody, some al-Qaeda member's grandmother knows something and might make some slip in her language on the internet that the bot kind of stuff could pick up.
Even though she doesn't actually reference what her grandson is doing, we know something is up just because of the nature of the emotional values of her language has changed.
art bell
Incredible.
All right.
Hold on, you two.
Headed toward the bottom of the hour.
George, your and Cliff are here.
And for those who understand kind of where we're centered in all of this, you understand the magnitude of what these gentlemen are doing.
And perhaps what the intelligence communities are doing.
Certainly the Chinese, they seem to be giving it a good old college try, as it were.
And one might imagine even our own government's giving it a shot.
Maybe that's why we're getting these reactions.
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art bell
You see, this is kind of like Journey to the Center of the Mind.
That really is what it's like, except it's the collective mind.
What a trip to take.
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art bell
Really fascinating stuff.
Once again, George, Ewer, and Cliff.
Gentlemen, welcome back.
There's a question up here from Charles in Flagstaff, Arizona, and then I want to follow it up with my own.
Here it is.
Have you ever done a bot search on the Mayan calendar 2012 scenario?
Over the next 20 years, he says, broadband's going to go up, up, up.
Do you ever see a time when the software will be available to the general public?
So let's handle the first one first, about 2012.
It would seem a remarkable thing to go and look at, the end of the Mayan calendar.
Have you ever sent a bot onto the web after that?
clif high
Not specifically.
It's odd that they bring that up because a lot of the archetypical timing clues that I use within the lexicon are based on what I discovered within the Mesoamerican calendar.
And I prefer to call it that rather than Mayan, but we're speaking of the same thing.
art bell
Yes, indeed.
clif high
And within that calendar, we find that they have 20 named days arranged in groups of 13.
And this comes to 260, which is the orbital period of Venus, which coincides with the orbital period of the Earth every so many years, which coincides with the orbital period of Saturn, etc., etc.
And we get to this other area of interest of mine, which has been hyperdimensional or hyperspatial math.
And it's rather odd, as I say, that that was brought up.
But the 2012 transition, if you will, from the Mayan Long count probably is making its, or definitively is making itself felt on the Internet now because I do pick up an emotional worry quotient, if you will, around that date.
art bell
Sure.
Sure you do.
clif high
But I don't have anything in the way of a predictor as to what might be causing that worry.
art bell
All right.
Well, right now, you guys are like the striving artists of the cyber world, right?
So there's got to be a way you can make some money on this.
And I can think of one way, but you might not like it.
But nevertheless, I'd like to suggest it.
Why not package and sell your code, your program, sell your program at some point, at least in beta, as a scenario predicting software program for predicting the future.
clif high
Problem is we would have to send a human along with it.
Bear in mind that really what we end up with at the end of the software world.
art bell
Well, I know, but all you'd need to send is a lesson in evaluating the results.
We send a little videotape of that for $29.95.
See, I'm trying to help you guys here.
clif high
Sure, I understand.
I'm not really throwing up an objection so much as countering with some of the complexities involved in the sense that I've often questioned whether any of the emotive values that I've assigned, while showing some level of meaningfulness, are really meaningful in the broad scheme of things.
So just because I've assigned a particular value to a particular word or group doesn't necessarily mean that someone else would interpret it that same way.
So what we have here at this stage is nine prologue programs, some C programs, a big IntelliCAD situation that's run by an Auto Lisp program, and then I sit down and drill into all of these words with this lexicon.
Believe me, no one would ever want to run this as a recreational kind of a product.
art bell
Well, see, what you've got to do is wrap all that up into a program that'll run on Windows XP.
george ure
I love it, Ert.
unidentified
Well, I'm trying to think market here, you know.
art bell
And I figured you'd love it because I can see which side of this you're on.
And so this is one way you really could do this.
I mean, if you could sort of work this into a program that would run, it would be real popular and you would make money.
george ure
Well, you could actually use the technology in a little different way.
You could build something that would scan all of your incoming emails and would tell you what people really think about you.
Because it's a lexical shift over time.
art bell
You know, if I were to run that with my current email, they would think that I'm under-deprived in my manhood.
Because there'd be so many of those that would come through, you know, the patches and the lotions and the potions and all the rest of that.
How do you wonder how your bots do they get affected by this horrible onslaught of crap that's on the Internet?
clif high
We run into that.
We used to run into that when we were using a different kind of intelligent agent because we would occasionally end up sweeping through batched email queues that were on specific servers.
But since I've dropped that approach, there was a sort of a sea change in the Internet commercially around the year 2000.
And some of the old conventions that had been in existence since the ARPA days kind of fell by the wayside, along with the robots.txt, which is a file that a guy who runs a server could put up there that would say, in essence, robots stay away or robots can go and look at this area, etc.
And that kind of convention went away.
And since then, I have stopped using spiders that skip from server to server to server in the main, To be honest, because I was picking up so much pollution.
And in fact, we had indeed polluted our own event stream at one point.
george ure
What ends up happening is if you think of the internet, and if you're familiar with a spreadsheet, you know what a circular reference is?
art bell
Sure.
george ure
Okay.
What ends up happening with webbots is if we're running a webbot run and do a snapshot while the run is still out there, people would pick up things on my website and like the Gold Antitrust Action Coalition or Antitrust Group has a bunch of discussions going on at places like Lemetropol.
And so pieces of my post about what the web bots are predicting show up at some of these financial sites.
And then we go out and sweep that same stuff.
Then we end up getting this feedback loop going.
So it's not really the kind of thing that you can put out there on a, hey, today here's the update on the web bot.
art bell
You really need to They are scared to death for understandable reasons of coming on the radio and talking about what they're doing for fear that it will affect the experiment, their ongoing experiments.
And I do understand that concern and fear, and that's why you don't hear a lot from them.
They really are concerned about that.
For you, it was a feedback problem.
For them, since it's science, they're trying to keep their results pure.
So coming on there and talking about it to millions of people could potentially pollute it.
clif high
And I would not, for instance, do a WebBot run for some considerable time simply because we will pollute it just with the number of your listeners that will be discussing this online tomorrow.
art bell
Well, in fact, you haven't done that many recent runs, correct?
clif high
That's correct.
art bell
It's a matter of poverty, though.
It's poverty.
clif high
Yes, these are very expensive to do, and they're extremely time-consuming.
art bell
This would be a tool that a government could use against terrorism, obviously, right?
george ure
Correct.
art bell
But is it refined enough?
And that's probably why the CIA only put you in the let's keep watching these guys kind of this is interesting scenario, but we don't know yet type place.
george ure
Yeah, I think we're at the point where we've had a lot of intellectual gain from the project.
We've had, just like playing with radios is fun, playing with web bots is fun, but we don't know if we can really push the technology any further until somebody with very deep pockets steps up.
The reason for it is that I'm just wrapped up one job assignment in South Florida, and I'm moving to my ranch in Texas on Tuesday.
And Cliff is, you know, what do you do after you invent super speed reading and webbots and you're the prince of SQL?
art bell
Look, your best route to money is the route you were on originally.
Your original motivation was to predict the market.
If you can make this a usable tool in the market, what problem?
clif high
The nature of the markets themselves have changed, and we discovered this back in June and July of 2001, focused on some of our financials.
For instance, I will be flat out, and I will state that there is no point for anyone, in my opinion, and I'm stating this as an opinion, to involve themselves in any way shorting any market that's under the control of the United States government or the Fed because they are indeed being controlled.
And therefore, why bother betting in that casino when you know the casino is rigged?
art bell
Well, if you know how it's rigged, then you can short the right thing.
clif high
That's not moral.
art bell
Well, maybe not.
What the hell is moral about economics?
Not much.
clif high
No, but a person has to maintain their own integrity and morality regardless of the perfidity that they may see around them.
Just because others are using the casino of the stock markets to scam money and steal from the American people doesn't mean I have to participate.
art bell
Ooh, well, that's right.
No, look, I have no problem with such a stand.
But after all, you guys did approach this from an economic point of view when you started.
And before you ran into the larger picture, this was about making money.
clif high
Correct.
And to that extent, it still is, but there was always that level of emotional or intellectual curiosity about it.
And I was never going to use it in any immoral way to make money.
george ure
On the other hand, Art, I've actually tried.
art bell
Well, I can hear that in your voice, that you would have tried.
And with what kind of results?
I mean, you had good results with gold.
george ure
Oh, yeah, gold's been great.
art bell
And how else have you done?
george ure
Well, specifically, when we had the entities pointing to the U.S. dollar becoming irrelevant, in other words, the Federal Reserve Note becoming more or less irrelevant at the end of 2003, I tried going short in a massive way with put options on various indexes.
And what we expected would happen, the fall of the dollar began right on schedule.
art bell
But guess what?
george ure
The market went up.
art bell
Yes.
But why not just go ahead and bet on the falling dollar?
I mean, that's something you had down.
Why not bet?
clif high
In essence, by buying gold, you are betting on the falling dollar.
art bell
Well, you're right.
unidentified
You are.
art bell
Yes.
clif high
And in fact, we have done some special runs for people where I put the WebBots back almost a year ago.
I did a couple of runs for some European banks.
And they did very well as a result of following the advice that came out of it.
art bell
Well, and you could have done even better.
While you're right about buying gold, that's a sort of around-the-corner, very conservative way to bet into what your machine's telling you.
A more direct way would be to simply get in the currency markets and put lots of money on the falling dollar.
george ure
kind of like orville and wilbur did not set off to build a 727.
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